CHEMICAL REACTION

ENGINEERING – CLL122
Divesh Bhatia (Course Coordinator)
Feedback
• Either in person or by email (dbhatia@chemical.iitd.ac.in)
• Block 1, Room 315
Books
• Textbook
• Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (H. Scott Fogler)

• Reference books
• Chemical Reaction Engineering (Octave Levenspiel)
Policies
• Attendance below 75% - one grade lower (e.g., B
becomes B-)
• No favors (reminors, etc.) if attendance below 75%
• Surprise attendance checks will be conducted
• 10 marks will be deducted if proxy attendance is found
• You need to come for the tutorials in your
respective group.
• Do not use your mobile phones in the lectures and
tutorials
• Bring your calculators for the tutorials
Marking scheme
• Minor 1 – 20 marks
• Minor 2 – 20 marks
• Quiz – 15 marks
• Major – 45 marks
Other Announcements
• Tutorials on Wednesdays in LH 408
• 1 − 2 PM for cycle 1 and 4
• 2 − 3 PM for cycle 2 and 3

• Reminder: Please bring your calculators to the tutorials

• Tutorial sheets will be uploaded on moodle
• All announcements related to the course will be via
course mailing lists
ASK QUESTIONS
Introduction
• Chemical Reaction Engineering – Combines study of chemical kinetics with
reactors in which the reactions occur
Applications
2018 Fortune 500 companies
• Manufacture of chemicals and plant • Walmart
safety (Run away reactions) • State grid
• Smog formation • Sinopec group
• China National Petroleum
• Pollution control / Catalytic converters
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Oil recovery
• Toyota motor
• Drug delivery • Volkswagen
• BP
• Exxon Mobil
• Berkshire Hathaway
Your role
• Increase capacity or selectivity at minimum cost (scale up)
• Design of chemical processes (consider transport effects)
• Maintain and operate a process in a stable, safe and environmental friendly
manner
• Fix some perceived problems (e.g., excessive exotherms)

• Greenfield problem: Find dimensions of vessel to obtain a certain performance

• Rating question: Given a vessel of certain dimensions, what performance to
expect?
Course outline
• Mole balance
• Reactor sizing
• Rate laws and stoichiometry
• Isothermal reactor(s) design
• Unsteady state operation
• Analysis of rate data
• Multiple reactions
• Steady-state non-isothermal reactor design
• Residence time distribution and non-ideal reactors
 Reactor at Amoco

Spherical reactor

Sasol advanced synthol reactor

Spherical reactors connected in series

Hydrotreating unit Cutaway view of CSTR Batch reactor Monolith reactor